Beta Site Launched
Note: This site hasn't been updated in a long time. I mostly just use this domain for email.
Having more or less settled on Drupal as the tool for building my website, it’s time to actually go ahead and build it. This item is the first thing created in this installation; much more development will follow before the site goes live.
At the moment, the site is running on a separate subdomain so that the main “www.wyzardry.net” site can continue showing its placeholder page. Once it’s ready, I'll move the site over there so it’s live.
I’m planning on writing some scripts at some point to automate duplicating a Drupal installation (files plus database) from one subdomain to another. That way if I want to test something risky, I can just make a test copy of the site to practice on, to make sure it works before I do it on the live site. The tricky part will be getting it to automatically update Drupal’s configuration in the copy so that it references its own copy of the database rather than the original, live one.
Anyway, I’m off to go browse through the available modules and see what interesting things I can make Drupal do. In the spirit of open-source, I hope to eventually document how everything is configured, and provide for download (directly from this site) all the various modules that I end up using. That’ll come later, though.